I guess I wasn't the only one to not know about this Google project to publish prior art, TDCommons: https://www.wired.com/story/google-tdcommons-dpub-patents-prior-art
(but also remember that Google has always refused to support efforts to actually abolish all software patents / make ideas implemented in software nonpatentable)
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